what's marra ?
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any1 care to elaborate , thanks in advance !!!
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4. Mara always disrupts the cultivator, what should one do?
Shut the doors of our undesirable habits and self-serving temperament.
The Mara is a very troublesome thing. It is always destroying that which is good. When a person's career encounters Mara, then he will not be successful. When Mara intrudes into the family, the family breaks up. As a Buddhist, when we encounter Mara, we lose our wisdom-life. Where is the Mara found? It resides in the heavens of desire (devalokas). The king of this heaven is King Mara. Moreover, there are armies of Mara, the children and grandchildren of Mara, female Mara and many others. Nevertheless, regardless of how strong and mighty the Mara is, there is no need to be afraid. Human beings have a weakness - the fear of Mara.
All Maras intrude through the doors of our undesirable habits and self-serving temperament. Whatever those habits and temperament are, so long as they are not fully eradicated, the Mara will enter from there. For example, the Mara will enter a person through his habit of drinking alcohol. Similarly, it enters a person through his negative habits and temperaments such as sexual misconduct, telling lies, being materialistic, being lazy and refuses to learn or work.
The best way to counter Mara, is to shut the doors of our undesirable habits and self-serving temperaments. Hence, when we set the objective of learning and practising the Buddha's teachings to eradicate our undesirable habits and self-serving temperament, it is to prevent the Mara from entering us again. Without the troubles caused by Mara, we will succeed in all our endeavours, be they our studies, career or building a blissful family.
Many people leave the doors open for Mara, and people in the society, by and large, are unaware that they have been invaded by Mara. When Mara takes effect, it can cause people to become bankrupt, families to break up and even the loss of lives. Now, this is the secret - eradicate our undesirable habits and self-serving temperament, thereby shutting the doors through which the Mara enters. In this way, the Mara will not be able to do you any harm.
that also said, mara is zhe2 mo2(torture)...either he torture u or u torture yourself.
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when we die . mara tries to trick us ?
like fooling us , we enter the marra beam of light .
what happens ?
how to differentiate mara and real beam of light into pureland .
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There are four kinds of mara. There is mara within, and there is also mara outside, they are the Tian Mo from the 6th desire heaven, the highest plane of the sensual heavens.
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma8/mara.html
"As Buddhism developed it created a theory of four kinds of Mara, as a way of 'reading' Mara. The four are:
(1) the Mara of psychophysical existence; (2) the Mara of compulsions; (3) the Mara of death; and (4) the Mara who is born of a god. A fifth kind of Mara is sometimes added, the Mara of conditioning. These classifications helped early Buddhist teachers to disentangle Mara's key features." -
Gold , dun try to clump too many teachings into one brain lahOriginally posted by goldevil:when we die . mara tries to trick us ?
like fooling us , we enter the marra beam of light .
what happens ?
how to differentiate mara and real beam of light into pureland .
if ur cultivation enough , should be able to c it ?
when we die , Mara is not that stupid to trick every person to samsara
unless this life you have confidence and u have 100% practise as a Buddhist and cultivate Deep Samadhi .Else ,forget it ,
Mara is not that free to trick all practitioner, just send one of his generals can liao
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Originally posted by goldevil:
not unless you are about to leave samsara. normally, deptor do the trick-ing.
when we die . mara tries to trick us ?
like fooling us , we enter the marra beam of light .
what happens ?
how to differentiate mara and real beam of light into pureland .
if ur cultivation enough , should be able to c it ?
u follow them, u'll remain trap in samsara.
Buddha's like are bright, golden and soothing, not glaring. mara however can mimic Buddha's bright light, but it's glaring and doesn't feel right
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Can mara be in physical form ?
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As in a human form? Hehe.. not sure... mara incarnates, maybeOriginally posted by Isis:Can mara be in physical form ?
I think it is possible and I have heard before.
It is said that in the dharma ending age, mara incarnates will wear Buddhist clothes and act like Buddhist, and destroy Buddhism from within. -
Might be referring to himself...Originally posted by An Eternal Now:As in a human form? Hehe.. not sure... mara incarnates, maybe I think it is possible and I have heard before.
It is said that in the dharma ending age, mara incarnates will wear Buddhist clothes and act like Buddhist, and destroy Buddhism from within. -
Let readers decide for themselvesOriginally posted by Herzog_Zwei:Might be referring to himself... 
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Ananda, you should know that, especially in the Dharmaending
Age, these ten kinds of demons, the ones that appear in the
ten demonic states associated with the thinking skandha, may leave
the home-life to cultivate the Way within my Buddhadharma.
They may possess other people. The demon kings may possess
other people, or they may manifest themselves in various forms.
They may display their spiritual powers as demon kings and
manifest all kinds of forms. They may appear as Buddhas, Bodhisattvas,
Arhats, or gods. Demon kings can manifest in any kind of
body. All of them will claim that they have already
accomplished Proper and Pervasive Knowledge and
Awareness. “Proper and Pervasive Knowledge” refers to the
Buddha, who has both proper knowledge and pervasive knowledge.
“Proper knowledge” means knowing that “the mind produces the
myriad dharmas.” “Pervasive knowledge” means knowing that “the
myriad dharmas are the mind itself.” When someone has genuine
proper and pervasive knowledge and views, he becomes a Buddha,
One of Proper and Pervasive Knowledge. However, demons
pretend to be Buddhas and claim to have attained proper and
pervasive knowledge.
When Shakyamuni Buddha was about to enter Nirvana, he
summoned the demon king and commanded him, “You should
abide by the rules. Follow the rules from now on. DonÂ’t violate
them.” The demon king replied, “So you want me to follow your rules?
Fine. During the ending age of your Dharma, I will wear your
garments, eat your food, and defecate in your alms bowl.” His
meaning was that he would destroy the Dharma from within.
When the Buddha heard that he was worried. He wept and said,
“There’s really nothing I can do about you. Your method is the most
poisonous, the most destructive.”
There is the saying: “The parasites on the lion’s body eat the
lion’s flesh.” This means that in the Dharma-ending Age, the
demons are strong and the Dharma is weak. There are a lot of
demon kings. Therefore, cultivators must be very careful. What are
demon kings like? In general, they are different from ordinary
people. They have a demonic energy about them. There is
something unusual about them, which reveals that they are demon
kings. The Dharma-ending Age is a time when the Dharma is weak
and demons are strong. The Song of Enlightenment by Great
Master Yongjia says very clearly:
Alas! In the evil time of the Dharma-ending Age,
Living beings have few blessings;
it is difficult to train them. Far indeed from the Sages
of the past,
their deviant views are deep.
Demons are strong, the Dharma is weak;
many are the wrongs and injuries.
Hearing of the door of the TathagataÂ’s Sudden Teaching,
They regret not destroying it as they would smash a tile.
“Alas” expresses a regretful sighing about the Dharma-ending Age.
The evil time means this time is very evil and vile. All the monsters
are appearing in the world.
http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Shurangama/ps.ss.02.v8.020526.screen.pdf -
I posted here before.. but I can't remember where. My Taiwanese teacher once encountered in his meditation a few mara daughters, who are prettier than anything anyone has seen. They wear scantily half transparent silk-like clothes and tried to seduce him and touch him.Originally posted by sinweiy:not unless you are about to leave samsara. normally, deptor do the trick-ing.
u follow them, u'll remain trap in samsara.
Buddha's like are bright, golden and soothing, not glaring. mara however can mimic Buddha's bright light, but it's glaring and doesn't feel right
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My taiwanese teacher remained unmoved and scolded them, I can't remember what... then they disappeared, along with the house, everything in it, and the place he is sitting on. The whole world disintegrates.
At some point in our practice.. we will encounter mara's invitation